Word: leopards
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...earth shook to the roar of can non and the bite of heavy treads as German-built Leopard tanks and tank destroyers, more than 100 strong, staged a mock panzer battle at the Bundeswehr proving grounds at Munsterlager...
...shades on his eyes, and with a cigarette holder between his teeth, he drives his silver Ferrari "as fast as I can everywhere I go, playing little tunes on the gears." For solace, he retreats to his 22-room Spanish villa atop Beverly Hills, sits cross-legged on a leopard-skin pillow, drops his head, closes his eyes, and bongs away on four Japanese gongs and a large hollow log from Mexico. "My gong guru and I," he recalls, "used to go out in the desert and take some peyote and just hit it. Wild vibrations, man! Overlapping...
Returning to Amsterdam, Kortlandt organized a three-man expedition to Guinea, equipped it with cameras and an experimental tool of his own design: a stuffed leopard animated by a windshield-wiper mechanism that moved its head and tail. Hiding in the bush, Kortlandt's crew waited until a group of about 30 chimps passed nearby and then pulled the mock leopard into view. "Hell broke loose," says Zoologist Jo Van Orshoven, a member of the expedition. "With enormous yelling and hooting they started to attack the leopard in an organized and coordinated...
Chimpanzees were thought to lack the ability to aim. But the attacking chimps threw everything they could pick up with great accuracy. Several apes broke branches off nearby trees, stripped off twigs and leaves, and attacked the leopard with great vigor, running upright and swinging their clubs over their shoulders. Throughout the 20-minute attack, they encouraged each other with embraces and even by shaking hands. When the zoologists repeated their experiment with a different group of rain forest chimps, however, the forest-dwelling animals loped excitedly about on all fours and made threatening noises, but demonstrated no signs...
...Hawaiian dark-rumped petrel, the blunt-nosed leopard lizard, the Santa Cruz long-toed salamander and the Col orado River squawfish - to say nothing of the timber wolf, the grizzly bear and the American alligator - may soon go the way of the dinosaur: to extinction...